Explore Our PhD Program

The Emory PhD Program puts students on the intellectual frontier of the economic discipline by introducing them to the leading-edge theories and techniques. This training allows students to actively investigate research questions of particular interest and importance to them.

Students in the PhD program in Economics at Emory enjoy:

• Distinguished faculty eager to mentor students
• Financial support including generous annual stipend and full tuition scholarship
• Low student-to-faculty ratio with small interactive classes
• Reside in Atlanta and enjoy the benefits of a major city
• Research opportunities at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Training in the most current and advanced quantitative methods, critical to research in the focus areas of Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Health Economics, and Econometrics